From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 16 17:45:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from titus.lastamericanempire.com (dsl081-101-239.den1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.101.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7C9437B416 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:45:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by titus.lastamericanempire.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 92B7620F6A; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 18:53:35 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 18:53:35 -0600 From: Zach Thompson To: lewiz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetchmail sleeping. Message-ID: <20020416185335.A30571@lastamericanempire.com> References: <1018999825.393.37.camel@turtle.lewiz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <1018999825.393.37.camel@turtle.lewiz.org>; from purple@lewiz.info on Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 01:30:24AM +0200 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * lewiz [020416 17:38]: > Hey, > > Anybody know why, when fetchmail is run with ``set daemon 480'' in my > fetchmail.conf file it does not fetch mail but instead at 480 second > intervals logs ``sleeping'' in the log file. Everything works fine if I > comment this line out and just run fetchmail in non-daemon mode. > Thanks. > When there are no messages that is all that is logged I believe before the process sleeps until the next poll. If I log I get the same thing until there is a message. Have you tried sending a message to one of your polled accounts and waking the daemon? Should log the retrieval then. Zach Thompson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message